Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
• Phaeacians: Nausicaa, Alcinous, and the Escort Home (*Odyssey* 6–8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 6–8
• Demodocus Sings of Troy: Odysseus Weeps (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court · Homeric — blind bard’s Trojan lays; tears that betray the hero
• The Phaeacian Games (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians · Homeric — athletic contests before Odysseus’s apologue
• Demodocus Sings the Wooden Horse (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court / Trojan War in song · Homeric — bard’s lay of the horse; Odysseus weeps

Places appearing with them

• Alcinous’s court
• Assembly
• Assembly place
• Cyprus
• Hephaestus’s house on Olympus
• Ithaca
• Lycia
• Palace of Alcinous
• Palace of Alcinous on Scheria
• River of washing
• Scheria
• Thrace

Themes

• Binding
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Petrification
• Revenge
• Succession
• War